The Osceola times., 1887-09-17
WITH PLEASURE"
How I Became Acquainted With
My Lieutenant

80 you are engaged to be married,
and TO q Prussian officer, too?" said
Olga
''Yes, my dear Marie. aud we are to
be married some time this fall"
How in the world did you come to
make his acquaintance? Were the cir
cumStances very romantics"
mo, there was nothing very roman
tic with Lieutenant Hoffman. but the
circumstances were very funny. |
have laughed over them hundred
times, However will tell you pre-
cisely how it occurred, and You can
Judge for yourself. F"
81 am all ears. You have no idea
how delight TO listen to love stories"
"You see, last summer we took trip
TO Carlsbad for the benefit of pas
health. Pa has grown very stout of
late, and he had TO 20 there in order to
reduce his weight thirty orforty pounds.
AT first he wanted to 90 by himself.
He said he didn't need to take any of
Us along in order to fall in flesh, but
ma took all that foolshness out of his
head.
What selfish man your pa must
be not TO want to take you with him. "
well, he had to take us with him
anyhow. This was the first time we
had ever been any where, and you can
have no idea how excited we were,
and my sister. We were excited be-
fore we left home. We were still
more excited during the trip, and
when we got there | hardly knew
whether stood on my head or on my
heels
How did You like hotel life at the
watering placep'
1--WE were too much excited to
know what we liked or dislikcd |
and my sister Caroline had n small
room all to ourselves, and we stayed
awake half the first night talking
about the wonderful sights we ex-
ppcted to see and the wonderful
people with whom we might become
acquainted.
you were thinking about the Lieu
tenant then, l suppose.
"llow could be thinking about him
when had never seen him in my life.
That night | had the strangcst dream
Il was possible for any body to have.
owing. | suppose TO my excitement l
dreamed that fell into the water, and
was almost drowned. and that a big,
stout man saved my life. Then
dreamed that the hotel was on fire. |
imagined that could hear the people
calling fire! fire?
Then YOU dreamed that the Lieuten-
ant came to your rescue"
You keep still about my Lieutenant
I'll tell you about him after while |
heard the call of fire 50 plainly. that
when | awoke ] was fully persuaded
that the house was really on fire.
jumped up without thinking about
Caroline, rushed into the hall to save
myself could neither hear nor see
any thing. There was no sign of fire
The only sound / could hear was
the beating of my own heart then
understood that was deceived by a
dream
But my dear Marie. when are you
going to tell about the Lieutenant
You seem To be very anxious to hear
about him. Can't you have patenee'
The next thing was TO get back into
my room. ] felt along the wall until |
got to the door, opened it. and as
was shiycring with cold, said to Caro-
hne; VIII you throw me shawl@ A
deep voice that never could have been
Naroline's replied: Certainly. with
pleasure | screamed, because ] knew
That was in strange room. Forum
ately, had the door handle in my hand.
lgot out as fast as ! could. Fortun-
a'ely, remembered that our door was
next to the stairs. was glad to get
INTO my room, and how my sister Caro-
nae made fun of me. 1t was perfectly
Shameful but she promised not to tell
anybody about it"
Not even the Lieutenant
For three days never moved out
OF my room for fear that / should
meet that man with the deep
voice. l pretended to be sick. Pa
wanted to send for doctor. but ] re-
USED to let him. was 80 nervous that
jumped VIXEN the door was closed
4 a',t, Easxiis,s said that IL didn't
2omc dst y The room she would toll o.
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